Laura Woods returns to screens for first time since pregnancy news to host Paris Olympics opening ceremony for Eurosport

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LAURA WOODS has returned to TV for the first time since announcing her pregnancy.

The presenter and her Love Island boyfriend Adam Collard shared the news on Sunday.

Woods shared her pregnancy news last week[/caption]

It is her first child with partner Adam Collard[/caption]

The couple made their relationship public in October[/caption]

Woods returned to the UK this month after leading ITV’s coverage of Euro 2024.

But she is now in Paris where she will front Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics.

Woods, 37, appeared on screens for the opening ceremony wearing a black dress.

The Eurosport host will feature throughout the Games alongside fellow presenters Reshmin Chowdhury, Orla Cheannaoui and Craig Doyle.

Woods is expecting her first child with Adam, nine months after the couple made their relationship public.

Since then they have shared scores of loved-up posts and been through their share of challenges.

They have largely kept their relationship out of the public eye, which for former ladies’ man Adam, 28, shows he has turned a corner in his love life.

Adam spilled the beans on how he pulled Laura following a string of dates including at the Black Bull pub in Trimdon, Co Durham, and heading off for a weekend away in St Ives in early October before going public later that month.

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Personal trainer Adam Collard, 28, has been dating Euro 2024 presenter Laura Woods, 36, since 2023.

The former loverat has called her “The One,” spent Christmas with her – the first time he’s done so with a girlfriend since he was 21 – and kept their relationship relatively out of the limelight, seemingly on Laura’s wishes.

It’s a far cry from the man who admits himself he’s been “ruthless” in the past, claims to have had 25 girlfriends, and spent many years partying and juggling flings with girls including Zara McDermott and Lottie Moss.

Relationship expert Jo Hemmings says: “He’s now 28, he’s a professional with a job, and I think he just went off the whole idea of ever realistically meeting somebody on a TV show.

“He’s now met somebody who is also a professional, and is only on TV as a byproduct of what she does in sport.

“He’s got himself in a comfortable place. Financially, he’s older, he’s more mature, he’s more settled.

“He once played into this roguish character that people saw him as, and became a parody of himself. But look who’s laughing now.

“He’s got a fabulous girlfriend, they’re in a long term relationship, he’s well off, he’s still in the public eye, and he’s getting on with his life in the way that I think he always wanted.”

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Eurosport's Olympic line-up in full

Presenters:

Laura Woods
Reshmin Chowdhury
Orla Chennaoui
Craig Doyle

Reporters:

Radzi Chinyanganya
Jaydee Dyer
Caroline de Moraes
Becky Ives
Rachel Stringer
Laura Winter
Matt Smith
Kate Mason

Pundits:

Adam Blythe
Tom Daley
Laura Robson
Shauna Coxsey
Carl Frampton
Stef Reid
Joanna Roswell
Ellie Simmonds
Lizzie Simmonds
Iwan Thomas
Nile Wilson

Speaking exclusively to The Sun in October, he revealed he had wooed her with a series of flirty social media messages before wining and dining her on an “undercover date”.

He said: “The first time we met – I’ll hold my hands up – I did DM her first and got a reply but then nothing ever happened. Then she called us out for basically leaving her on read.

“It’s hard to meet people, isn’t it? I’m from Newcastle and eventually we met up, and then went on a very undercover date, and obviously what comes out in the press, comes out in the press, but it’s not always the full story.

“I’m kind of glad in a way as well, as I feel like there’s an element of having to hide too much now.”

Eurosport's Olympics studio in numbers

STAFF

190 essential crew daily for studio operations
168 on-air presenters

PRODUCTION

312 live hours produced from WBD House
13 markets, four studios, 3 stand-up positions
23 cameras – 15 peds cameras, 2 jibs, 1 techno jib, beauty cam, drone cam, 2 RF cameras 1 steadi-cam

CATERING